Friday 26 April 2024

Hello Sunshine!

My 'Big Birthday Wishes' card was the winner of the CAS on Friday 'Dies Only' challenge and the team invited me to be Guest Designer on their 'Sunshine' challenge.  I was a little stuck with the challenge as I don't have any sunshine stamps or dies, but thought this lovely sunflower stamp would be perfect for a sunshine card.

To make this card I used:
     C6 white matt card blank
     The Best of Cardmaking Magic 'Sunflower' stamp and die
     My Favorite Things 'Fishtail Flags' die
     Versafine Vintage Sepia ink
     Cosmic Shimmer Clear Detail embossing powder
     Yellow and brown Promarkers
     Computer generated sentiment 'Harrington' font
     Snippets of white matt card

I stamped the sunflower onto a snippet of white card using brown ink before embossing it with clear embossing powder and cutting it with the coordinating die.  I coloured the sunflower with yellow and light brown Promarkers.  I printed the sentiment onto white matt card, using Harrington font and changing the colour to dark brown.  I cut the sentiment with the fishtail flag, elongating the die so the flag was just a little smaller than the width of the card.   I attached the flag along the lower edge of the card and flower to the left of the sentiment.

I am entering the following challenges:
     As You Like It Challenge - Clean or Fussy (it's almost always 'clean' for me - I always place die cuts and embellishments onto the card and then take something away before it all gets stuck into place!)
     Daisy Chain Challenge - Not Square
     Snippets Playground - Challenge 478

Kath x

10 comments:

Pat said...

The sunflower is the perfect sunny image Kath and looks great placed alongside the nice large 'Happy Birthday', and love the computer generated font. Congratulations on being Guest Designer over at CAS on Friday after winning with that lovely colourful sentiment you used on the last challenge..well deserved. x

crafty-stamper said...

Congrats on your win and GDT spot,great CAS card and the sunflower makes a perfect sun.
Carol x

Di said...

Clever thinking Kath - using the sunflower as the sunshine! It fascinates me that sunflowers constantly turn their faces to follow the sun. Nice one!

Hugs
Di xx

Nancy said...

A wonderful "sunny" card! Thanks for joining us as a guest designer!

Sarn said...

Congrats on your win Kath.
Love this CAS sunflower card.

Thanks for entering a piece of homework to the Snippets Playground. See you up in the treehouse later.xxx

kareN stampZ said...

That's pretty clever to use a lovely bright SUN-flower, love the design of your card and grats on being Guest Designer

Lynne in NI said...

Congrats on your win and GD spot! Your sunny sunflower was just perfect for their theme!

meg said...

A wonderful sunflower stamp Kath,certainly looks like the sun

Lynne said...

A wonderful CAS card Kath. I just can't leave all that white space, but you have done it wonderfully. Thank you for joining in at As You Like It. Lynne DT

Sarah said...

Thank you for sharing this striking CAS card with us at AYLI. Sarah